COSMIC all by itself bare metal tutorial?

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I want to donate a disk to it.

All my reading (especially here) is about a Cosmic Endeavour alongside of an existing DE.

Is is as simple as selecting NO DE in the installer then after reboot open a TTY and sudo pacman -S cosmic?

Seems to be more to it that that. Has anyone bare-metaled it alone on a disk?

Thank you.

edit: changed word

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I used this EOS Community setup: https://github.com/EndeavourOS-Community-Editions/cosmic

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that guide asks for a lot of pre-installation moves. how do I do that with no OS and no terminal?

Or do I install headless first?

PS thank you I did read that

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You can install EOS without a DE, it is one of the options.

You will still get a working system. It won’t be headless, it will just be a console.

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so that tutorial is meant to executed in the live media?

it calls itself pre-install guide, not post.

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You do that from the live ISO.

Yes

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but if I am using that guide before headless installation then where do the pre-installtion installed packages go if there is no DE/OS?

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It adds them to the list of packages the installer installs.

So they end up in the installed system.

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OK that’s my Eureka moment!! thank you

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PS this was your suggestion and I really like the idea of it and have watched some stuff.

edit: heresy

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For anyone with a RPi 4b or RPi 5, Cosmic is available in the Desktop Menu dialog as a Community Edition. Cosmic will also run on a Pinebook Pro.

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Cosmic on RPi 4b and RPi 5 is broken. It was working real well 3 weeks ago, but now it is broke. It won’t launch any cosmic native apps, such as Cosmic Files, Cosmic Terminal, etc.
This has been fixed and new images released.

Pudge

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Is using SDDM as login manager (DM) still recommended or would you prefer lightdm or something else?

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Since SDDM is now deprecated, I would use something else.
Cosmic-greeter is nice enough especially if you’re running cosmic-desktop.

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I bare-metal’d this.

It’s GNOME with the fat dock. Looks/acts nothing like the Endeavour pictures of it. How do I make it look like a conventional DE like the pictures It’ that Gnome 2-worlds thing,

Had to minor work with greeter shuffling since PAM authentication kept failing at login.

None of the Settings launch so there won’t be any customizing until Setting actually launch.

Did it all by the Github tutorial except I did not want SDDM (I used cosmic one instead).

Sigh.

Work in progess.

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yeah that bricked it :). My bad.

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I went with cosmic’s own

edit: I know your ? was not for me

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Thank you both, I don’t use cosmic just wondered by reading

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This is what I came up with just using the “Cosmic Settings” app.

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On the Applications menu, I created a “Whatever” group and put all the stuff I never use in there to clean things up,

Pudge

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THANKS :heart: !

This was new territory for me

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